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...ildren we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been...

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...ect to the exception immediately following, this book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that co... .... It can be accessed through the author’s Web site at http://www.jz.org. Set in Adobe Garamond type by The Composing Room of Michigan, Inc. Printed in... ...a by R. R. Donnelley, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zittrain, Jonathan ( Jonathan L.), 1969– The future o... ...electricity is an amazingly adaptable technology, as is plas- tic (hence the historical use of “plastic” to refer to notions of sculptability). 8 And ... ...produce innovative new services, to promote the free flow of informa- tion to societies in which the local media is censored, or to make the most effi- c... ... and dreaded censorship. 95 A necessary reaction to the lawlessness of early societies had become an over- reaction and, worse, self-perpetuating regu... ...lation. The generative Internet and PC were at first perhaps more akin to new societies; as people were connected, they may not have had firm expectatio... ...teen things it does, none of them are done particularly well.” Id. at 71. 8. Historically, the adjective “plastic” has meant “moldable” or “sculptable... ... L (1999). 60. See Lyombe Eko, New Medium, Old Free Speech Regimes: The Historical and Ideological Foundations of French & American Regulation of...

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